# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40035"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-28T11:48:17.030Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:41:13.342Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40035"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40035.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40035"
title: "Input: uinput - zero-initialize uinput_ff_upload_compat to avoid info leak"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nInput: uinput - zero-initialize uinput_ff_upload_compat to avoid info leak\n\nStruct ff_effect_compat is embedded twice inside\nuinput_ff_upload_compat, contains internal padding. In particular, there\nis a hole after struct ff_replay to satisfy alignment requirements for\nthe following union member. Without clearing the structure,\ncopy_to_user() may leak stack data to userspace.\n\nInitialize ff_up_compat to zero before filling valid fields."
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